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" Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "
Catalogue - Page 104
1873 - 112 pages
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The Printing machine (or, Companion to the library) [ed. by J.H.L. Hunt].

576 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 6-7

1835 - 538 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 6-7

1835 - 542 pages
...religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it,...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 12-13

1838 - 544 pages
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12

1838 - 274 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12

1838 - 272 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 8

1840 - 504 pages
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of adding to his happiness; you make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...of religious principles ; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying...man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most preverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine, Volumes 16-17

1859 - 886 pages
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, Volume 1

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 556 pages
...its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the...
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